Groucho Marx in his extremely popular 1950's television series "You Bet Your Life", which aired on the NBC Television Network. The "secret word" in this episode is "Chair". The series was a comedic game show which allowed plenty of room for Groucho's verbal comedy. Contains original broadcast commercials.


This movie is part of the collection: Classic TV

Audio/Visual: Sound, Black and White
Keywords: Classic TV; Television; Groucho Marx; Comedy; Humor; 1950s; 1950's; 50s; 50's; Fifties; Quiz Show; Comedic; NBC; NBC Television Network; Commercials; DeSoto; Car;

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Earlon - - February 21, 2010
Subject: A catalog site for Classic TV shows
If you like Classic TV from of the 50's, I found a catalog site that makes it easy to find and watch episodes streaming from Archive.org at:

The Classic TV Channel

There are currently over 400 individual episodes of about 30 different programs, and the site is growing day by day. Check it out!

Reviewer: Seto-Kaiba_Is_Stupid - - June 8, 2009
Subject: I Uploaded This
You know, this episode sorta proves a lot of Internet Archives reviewers to be very wrong, if not outright liars. Groucho would be pleased.

Of course, this isn't Groucho at his best, but he is well-suited to the medium of television and proves to be a very pleasing personality, and completely able to be humorous without an actual script (Groucho would generally plan a few ideas for each episode, but there was no actual script in the usual sense).

Nice little show really.